Sion

Detailed Tips

1. 01

   Respect Level 1 Strats - Sion has a few strats he can pull out level 1, which can help him get an early advantage, or allow him to be super annoying that can help him cheese through the first minutes of the game. Sion level 1 can try to proxy, which while a lot weaker nowadays, can still be a play he can do if he’s psycho enough. With that said, try to hold vision by standing in tri bush level 1 on red side, or cover the blue side path above the blue buff to spot out Sion. Once the minion wave spawns, walk towards the wave and protect it in case Sion found another way to enter, as doing this will weaken his chances of being able to proxy without dying. Sion can also start Q and hide in the middle bush, allowing him to get a disgustingly range Q that can chunk out a lot of your HP. Try to respect this, by either positioning away from his Q hit box indicator and farming the first 3 minions with Q, or if you have time, pull the wave towards the right hand side of the lane by aggroing minions first, then dragging it away from the bush, leaving Sion with no range to hit you with Q.

2. 02

   Level 1 Q or E Start - As mentioned through other notes, playing off Q and E both require different plays, however in this match up you can essentially do either of them and have pretty good success. Take E if Sion misses Q early and plays aggressively, then look for E AAx3 E Trade. Take Q if Sion skills W, then play for level 2 push into fighting him with E up.

3. 03

   Play For Level 2/3 Kill Angle - Once you chunk out Sion level 1, you're most likely able to kill him with Your W, Dash or Flash up. Always try to kill him near his tower, otherwise Sion can TP back and ruin your kill tempo.

4. 04

   Respect Sion Passive - Sion’s passive is always an insidious killer, as disrespecting it can leave him getting kills or ruining your tempo advantage completely. Sion’s deaths don’t really affect him as much as other champions, due to the fact his death timer starts ticking once Sion is in passive, allowing him to use his passive to his fullest, then instantly reviving right after. With that said when you’re trying to kill Sion, make sure to always get kills on his side of the map, as if you’re unable to shove the waves in after killing Sion can absolutely destroy your chances of hard abusing him, allowing him to TP to get the wave back, or running back in time to freeze a wave onto you or getting all the CS back without missing anything.

5. 05

   Play Wave On Your Side - Playing the wave on your side essentially means playing wave states on your side of the map, via abusing wave manipulation tactics or freezing on your side of the map. Simply use this to help you combo on your laner, taking away any space from them being able to trade you back (This also helps prevent the enemy running you down with their extended or sustained movement speed abilities). You can also use this wave state to run down your opponent with your abilities up, helping you obtain kills a lot easier vs stalemate or ranged match ups. Look to do this when your opponents are below 50% HP, or potentially make a mistake to provide you an all in opportunity to run them down.

6. 06

   Play Around Proxy - Sion players most often will always look for any chance to proxy, as Renekton typically hard counters in straight fights. Something Sion will usually do to enter his proxy, is that he will crash the wave then look towards walking past the tier 1 tower, or he will try to ult past you to reach your minion waves. As Renekton, we need to hold the minion wave outside of our tower, while preventing him from directly R’ing past by holding our E to potential dash and block his access. Sometimes Sion can go through the other side of the walls and start proxying, in which if your jungler or support is around, you can attempt to kill him before he tries to assert any tempo advantage over you. Alternatively, if no one is on your side of the map, you should just ignore him and play for farm by killing the minions in your wave, or proxying back against him to prevent his tempo advantage.

7. 07

   Abuse Renekton's R Powerspike - Once you reach level 6 your ultimate will essentially help you consistently stat check and dominate any match ups you were winning or losing. Make sure to always wait for your R CD to help you make plays, otherwise it will lead you towards a major disadvantage in dueling your enemies.

8. 08

   Build Eclipse, Black Cleaver or BoTRK - Go Eclipse for consistent power through mid game and damage mitigation with the shield. / Go Black Cleaver for additional CDR and other versatile stats for utility based gameplay. / Go BoTRK to one shot and snowball with a damage focused build.

9. 09

   Mid Game + Teamfighting Tips - Depending on how much you have put Sion behind, Sion’s performance will vary within the next phase of the game. Typically Sion will aim to split push and farm stacks for his passive, while trying to scale into his Thanos style playstyle. As Renekton, once we have finished BoTRK we will be able to actively fight and melt Sion within the side lane, on top of using our empowered E to help shred through his resistances. Any chance you get to kill Sion is always a big moment, as he cannot use his frontlining powers within a team fight, as well as being able to split push and take towers. Most often, if you’re ahead of Sion you want to try and dominate the map and use your lead to carry fights, however if Sion is hard split pushing you can use your mid laner or scaling adc to take waves, while you’re able to use your lead on the map. Within teamfights, try to ignore sion and focus on his carries first. Sion’s damage isn’t that much until he scales through his items in the later stages of the game, but even with that said ,your role should always focus on destroying his carries.